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| Main Entry: |
indentured
 [in-den-cher] 
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | obligated |
| Synonyms: | apprenticed, articled, bound, contracted, enslaved |
| Main Entry: | binding |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | confining |
| Synonyms: | attached, enslaved, fastened, indentured, limiting, restraining, tied, tying |
| Antonyms: | alterable, breakable, revocable, unbinding, unconfining, unnecessary |
| Main Entry: | bound |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | obligated; destined |
| Synonyms: | apprenticed, articled, bent, bounden, certain, coerced, compelled, constrained, contracted, doomed, driven, duty-bound, enslaved, fated, firm, forced, having no alternative, impelled, indentured, intent, made, necessitated, obligated, obliged, pledged, pressed, required, restrained, sure, under compulsion, under necessity, urged |
| Antonyms: | allowed, free, permitted, unbounded, unobliged, unrestricted |
Example Sentences
- They are currently indentured servants prohibited from holding other employment.
- He had great research productivity, but he accomplished this by turning his grad students into indentured servants.
- The bird, an indentured guest with pristine white feathers, seemed to be setting a tone for the untamed evening that was to come.
| Main Entry: | enslave |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make someone a servant |
| Synonyms: | bind, capture, chain, check, circumscribe, coerce, compel, confine, deprive, disenfranchise, disfranchise, dominate, enchain, enclose, enthrall, fetter, get hooks into, hobble, hold, immure, imprison, incarcerate, indenture, jail, keep under thumb, oppress, put in irons, reduce, restrain, restrict, secure, shackle, shut in, subdue, subject, subjugate, suppress, tether, tie, yoke |
| Antonyms: | allow, emancipate, free, let go, liberate |
| Main Entry: | obligated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bound |
| Synonyms: | bounden, called by duty, committed, compelled, contracted, duty-bound, enslaved, forced, indebted, indentured, obliged, pledged, required, tied, under obligation, urged |
| Main Entry: | obliged |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bound |
| Synonyms: | bounden, called by duty, committed, compelled, contracted, duty-bound, enslaved, forced, indebted, indentured, obligated, pledged, required, tied, under obligation, urged |
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